EPTThey've also fixed the thing where it would opt to do resource intensive stuff without asking while you're using the PC. Isn't bogging down my wife's C2D machine at all.
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
They've also fixed the thing where it would opt to do resource intensive stuff without asking while you're using the PC. Isn't bogging down my wife's C2D machine at all. | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
On April 25 2011 01:22 arctia wrote: If you ask me, MSE + Common sense is the way to go. After three years, I finally managed to install common sense for my parents. No more problems. Wow good job. Getting non-tech users, much less parents/family to develop good habits definitely gets some applause from me. | ||
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Tracedragon
United States948 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 25 2011 02:27 mav451 wrote: Wow good job. Getting non-tech users, much less parents/family to develop good habits definitely gets some applause from me. My dad set my mom up with a Linux PC. No market share? No viruses. My wife, on the other hand, is the reason we own Norton to begin with, I only ever really needed spybot for the more incessant crap floating around the more benign portions of the internet. My wife has either terrible luck or some weird pr0n I don't know about to get as many viruses as she does. Sad thing is, she works in IT, and 98% of the time, she can hand-clean her registry, but she still gets the things constantly. | ||
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thehitman
1105 Posts
1. Microsoft security essentials is not the best antivirus, in fact in most of the tests it scores in the middle of the pack, from about 20 other antiviruses. 2. Microsoft does not know best how to protect their OS, this is a common mistake noobs make, Microsoft antivirus team is actually not even part of the OS design team, it is a completely different team who Microsoft purchased. 3. Microsoft has purchased 3 anti-spyware teams as far as I recall, may be even more in order to be finally able to release security essentials, previously it was known by a different name. 4. Going on part 2, if Microsoft knew everything best about their OS they would be able to create the best games, best internet surfer, best defragmenter, best video player, best everything, clearly that is not the case. Microsoft is actually the least knowledgeable company about their OS, as they work with more than 30 different teams. Its not like there are 30 guys working on the OS and everything else, there are several teams who work on the OS, usually each team focusing on specific parts such as network, interface, security, etc, etc... Right now you can choose between 3 very good antiviruses: Avast, Avira and AVG free editions. Right now I would say Avast is the best as it offers the most amount of features even putting to shame some of the paid suites and its the fastest in terms on on-demand scan times. As for the paid suites I'd say norton, bitdefender and zonelabs suites are one of the more stable, as in you know what you are getting, with Norton right now being the best. | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
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pathy
Taiwan619 Posts
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zYwi3c
Poland1811 Posts
Theres nothing better atm. 0% CPU USAGE, 0% RAM USAGE. | ||
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MichaelEU
Netherlands816 Posts
And don't listen to troll posts like those of thehitman. | ||
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fiskrens
Sweden196 Posts
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M0nsterChef
Canada67 Posts
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OddBone
United States25 Posts
On April 25 2011 02:38 thehitman wrote: Okay I see there is a lot of nonsense going on around here so here it goes: 1. Microsoft security essentials is not the best antivirus, in fact in most of the tests it scores in the middle of the pack, from about 20 other antiviruses. 2. Microsoft does not know best how to protect their OS, this is a common mistake noobs make, Microsoft antivirus team is actually not even part of the OS design team, it is a completely different team who Microsoft purchased. 3. Microsoft has purchased 3 anti-spyware teams as far as I recall, may be even more in order to be finally able to release security essentials, previously it was known by a different name. 4. Going on part 2, if Microsoft knew everything best about their OS they would be able to create the best games, best internet surfer, best defragmenter, best video player, best everything, clearly that is not the case. Microsoft is actually the least knowledgeable company about their OS, as they work with more than 30 different teams. Its not like there are 30 guys working on the OS and everything else, there are several teams who work on the OS, usually each team focusing on specific parts such as network, interface, security, etc, etc... Right now you can choose between 3 very good antiviruses: Avast, Avira and AVG free editions. Right now I would say Avast is the best as it offers the most amount of features even putting to shame some of the paid suites and its the fastest in terms on on-demand scan times. As for the paid suites I'd say norton, bitdefender and zonelabs suites are one of the more stable, as in you know what you are getting, with Norton right now being the best. Do not use AVG, it is very bad.... | ||
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Wraith.978
Canada37 Posts
Really any virus software should be fine to keep your comp free of virus', but if you're looking for most secure I'd look into the various pay security suites (cause anti-virus isn't the only thing to worry about). | ||
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Wraith.978
Canada37 Posts
On April 25 2011 03:13 pathy wrote: Yup bitdefender is the best. I've been running it for two years and it's awesome. Kapersky takes up way too much processing power to be worth it. Really? I use Kaspersky. Currently it's using no processor power and 10k mem. Not very much. It uses more scanning, but you should be scanning at least weekly and at a time when you're not using the computer for much (I do mine at 3am on wednesdays). | ||
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Wraith.978
Canada37 Posts
On April 25 2011 03:21 MichaelEU wrote: MSE is free and fairly decent, no hassle and no options to set. That means you can't mess with any advanced options but 99% of computer users won't want to. Just don't do stupid stuff, don't click on any fishy stuff, don't download from obscure sites. And don't listen to troll posts like those of thehitman. Actually - he's right about the microsoft stuff even if I don't agree with his choses. | ||
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MichaelEU
Netherlands816 Posts
On April 25 2011 05:56 Wraith.978 wrote: Actually - he's right about the microsoft stuff even if I don't agree with his choses. He has the right facts (mostly... somewhat) but follows it up with troll reasoning. | ||
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Belial88
United States5217 Posts
I'm thinking of getting MSE. I know Avast is supposed to be the best, but I had some issues last time I used it (of course, they could be completely unrelated, but it required me to reinstall my OS, and I still can't recall exactly what happened except Avast being installed, although the issue occured days later I believe). I have a pirated MSE but I believe people say it's fine, that MSE doesn't do a check on genuine or not? I like what I hear from people saying MSE doesn't take up much resources. I'd imagine common sense is the biggest AV, but for a while now I've used malware bytes scans every once in a while and good behavior, and I avoid viruses completely. | ||
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jaj22
United Kingdom1376 Posts
The normal MSSE installer does perform a WGA check and will refuse to install if it fails. MSSE and Avast are both much less likely to cause serious performance or functionality problems than most common AV software. MSSE has a greater performance penalty but a much lower false-positive rate than Avast. Neither of them are anywhere near perfect for blocking modern malware. | ||
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Belial88
United States5217 Posts
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